A horoscope is the picture of
the planets during the birth of any person which differs from people to people,
due to the continuous movement of the planets. Astrological analysis of a person
begins with the preparation of a horoscope which requires exact date, time and
place of birth of that person concerned. The abstruse meaning of a horoscope
keeps similarity with that of the pack of a medicine. A horoscope is also like a
STAMP from the manufacturing company of NATURE, which incorporates these
features, just like in the case of a pack a medicine. Horoscopes hold the
positions of the planets during the birth of a person. To prepare a horoscope
three types of information are mainly required, viz.:
- Date of birth
- Time of birth
- Place of birth
For the preparation of a horoscope we need astronomical data, which provides us
the exact positions of the planets on their respective orbit of movement during
the date and time of birth of a person, which is different for everybody. From
the place of birth of a person, we can find out the geographical latitude and
longitude and also can calculate their differences from the celestial (Topocentric)
latitude and longitude.The word Zodiac literally means animals and refers to the
patterns or configurations of creatures as seen in the twinkling stars at night.
The Zodiac belt is the great circle around which our luminescent Sun apparently
moves month by month throughout the year, transceiving the energy of those
different constellational signs and thereby transmitting the celestial
radiations to our Earth.Astrology is the study of correlations of celestial
events with behavior on earth, particularly correlations which cannot be
explained by gravitation, magnetism, or other forces that are well-established
in physics or other sciences.A "celestial event" is any event in the sky. For
example, the Sun rising is a celestial event, or any two planets appearing in
the same place in the sky is a celestial event. The celestial event can involve
any celestial body, whether it be the Sun, Moon, a planet, an asteroid, comet,
star, black hole, quasar, or other celestial object.There are many possible
answers and I will not go into those now. Note that the lack of a clear
explanation of why the correlation should exist, or the fact that the existence
of such a correlation seems absurd to many scientists and non-scientists alike,
does not in itself make astrology unscientific. Scientists can analyse
correlations and perfect their ability to predict based on these correlations
without knowing why the correlation exists. Experts in scientific methodology
emphasize that science ultimately is about making observations and theories help
us understand the observations.The ability to predict that an apple will fall to
the ground if dropped is a scientifically verifiable statement and it does not
require the theory of gravitation to make it more scientific. However, the
theory of gravitation allows us to understand not only why the apple falls to
the ground, but also a myriad other phenomena such as why planets revolve around
the Sun and the Moon revolves around the Earth. The power of a scientific theory
is that it expands our ability to make predictions about other phenomena, but
the lack of good theories does not make a replicable experiment less scientific.